on Ubuntu / Linux Mint there's a PPA with VA-API patched Chromium builds. So Chromium users have had hardware acceleration on Linux for some time, depending on their Linux distribution or if they installed the patched Chromium in some other way. It's worth noting that Chromium web browser had patches that allowed making hardware accelerated video decoding available on Linux for some time, and some Linux distributions packaged it using those patches.
Using hardware-accelerated video decode in your web browser should result in using less CPU usage (and thus, less battery draining) when playing online videos. This article explains how to enable hardware-accelerated video decoding in Google Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera web browsers running on Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS or Linux Mint (Xorg only). Google Chrome is not the only Chromium-based web browser to support hardware acceleration on Linux though. Satya Nadella is not a strong enough manager to banish Bill Gates influence from Microsoft's sick culture, they need a CEO with morals and balls, something Microsoft has never had.Google Chrome 88 (and newer) has made hardware accelerated video decoding available on Linux, but it's not enabled by default. Microsoft Edge is still the best browser on Linux in terms of performance, features and power consumption, it's just sad that they are still the petty, vindictive, jealous retaliatory company that they have always been. In my country we have a word for people like that - we call them "cunts". It's a very strange kind of love where you intentionally make the experience worse for no reason than spite that you didn't pay someone, anyone for your OS - it's still available in the Mac OS version of Edge.
Microsoft once loved Unix so much that they had their own Unix, and then they loved OS/2 and it was the future, until it wasn't, then they loved Java, then they loved mobile devices and metro design, and now they love Linux. So the idea that they would release a web browser on Linux and then needlessly cripple a working feature months later without explanation only seems puzzling if you take Microsoft's "love" of Linux at face value.
Despite the fact that they appear to be supportive towards Linux, they are in fact deathly afraid of open source software at some level. Problem is that Microsoft is a very dishonest and duplicitous company.
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